CAS Faculty

Ana-Maurine Lara

Associate Professor
William and Susan Piché Faculty Fellow
Black Studies, IRES, Latinx, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-5032
Office: 322 Hendricks Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2022 – by appointment; Winter & Spring 2023 – 10am -12pm
Research Interests: Afro Latino/a Identities, Black Queer Aesthetics, Vudú in the Dominican Republic, and Afro-Dominicanidad and the Struggle Against Xenophobia in the Dominican Republic

C. Anne Laskaya

Associate Professor, Emerita
Medieval Studies
Phone: 541-346-1517
Office: 357 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall Term: Via Zoom M 11-12:30pm, R 2:30-4pm & by appt.
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Medieval Literary and Cultural Studies, Rhetoric

Peter Laufer

Professor, James N. Wallace Chair of Journalism
Food Studies, SOJC, SOJC-Journalism, SOJC-Journalism Master's, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Multimedia Journalism
Phone: 541-346-2109
Office: 203 Allen Hall

Changhoon Lee

Pro tem Korean Language Instructor
East Asian Languages
Office: Friendly 203

Gyoung-Ah Lee

Professor
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies
Phone: 541-346-5077
Office: 254 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Thur 2-4pm
Research Interests: Environmental archaeology, paleoethnobotany, ethnobotany, origins of agriculture, East Asian archaeology

John Leisure

Visiting Assistant Professor
History
Office: McKenzie 311
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesday/Thursday 3:00pm-4:30pm in McKenzie Hall #311 (or by appointment)
Research Interests: Japan, Public Housing, Urbanism, Transpacific studies

Stephanie LeMenager

Professor of English, Faculty Affiliate in Environmental Studies
Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor 2014-2024
English, Environmental Studies
Phone: 541-346-3966
Office: 457 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 3-4:30pm & by appt.
Research Interests: 19th Century American Literary Studies, Environmental Humanities, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies

Julia Lesage

Professor Emerita
English
Office Hours:

David Levin

Associate Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5621
Office: Monday and Wednesday 3:35-4:30
Office Hours: MW 2-2:50

Jun Li

Professor
Director, Center for Cyber Security and Privacy
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-4424
Office: 362 Deschutes Hall
Research Interests: Cyber Security and Privacy, Networking, Distributed Systems, Blockchain, Internet of Things

Yingjiu Li

Professor
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-4428
Office: 256 Deschutes Hall
Office Hours: Friday 10-11
Research Interests: IoT Security and Privacy, Mobile and System Security, Applied Cryptography and Cloud Security, Data Application Security and Privacy

Jeffrey S. Librett

Professor of German & Scandinavian
Department Head, Director of Graduate Studies
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-0649
Office: 327 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Tuesday 3:30-5:00pm and by appointment (through email)
Research Interests: German, French, and English letters; Enlightenment, Counter-enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism; literature, philosophy, critical theory, inter-arts discourse, Judaic Studies, psychoanalysis, film

Diana Libuda

Associate Professor
Biology
Phone: 541-346-5092
Office: 375E Streisinger

Raoul Lievanos

Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Sociology
Office: 640 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11am to 12:30pm (and by appointment)
Research Interests: Environment, Health, Risk, Community and Urban Sociology, Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, Science and Technology, Organizations and Institutions, Social Movements, Spatial Analysis, Quantitative Approaches, Qualitative Approaches

Ryan Light

Professor
Associate Head
Sociology
Phone: 541-346-5272
Office: 632 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Thursday 12:00-2:00
Research Interests: Social Networks, Science & Culture, Inequality, Computational Social Science

Susanna Lim

Associate Professor of Literature, Russian Studies, and Korean Studies
Director of REEES Graduate Studies
College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Global Studies, Korean, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-0691
Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 101
Research Interests: Korean Studies, Korean Literature, Korean Popular Culture, Race Studies, Race in South Korea, Russian Studies, Koryo Saram, Diaspora, Post-colonialism

Fuding Lin

Senior Lecturer
Associate Director, Oregon Center for Electrochemistry
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Phone: 541-346-8628
Office: 54 CAMCOR
Research Interests: Industry-informed Graduate Education, Electrochemistry, Semiconductor, Design of Experiment, Efficient Data

Robert Lipshitz

Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-5625
Office: 303 Fenton Hall

Krystale Littlejohn

Associate Professor
IRES, Sociology
Office: 740 PLC
Office Hours: Fall24: Wednesday 2pm-4pm and by appointment
Research Interests: Fertility, Race, Gender, Class, Health and Medicine, Body and Embodiment, Science, Knowledge, Technology, Mixed Methods

Shawn Lockery

Professor
Biology, Neuroscience
Phone: 541-346-4590
Office: 321A Huestis Hall

Pat Lombardi

Rsch Asst Prof/Dir UG Advsg
Biology, Multidisciplinary Science
Phone: 541-346-6055
Office: 65A Klamath Hall

Mark Lonergan

Professor
Physical & Materials Chemistry
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Phone: 541-346-4748
Office: 183B Klamath Hall

Lana Lopesi

Assistant Professor
IRES, Native American Studies
Office: 204 Alder Building
Office Hours: Fall 23, Wednesday 11-12:30pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Pacific Islander Studies, Diaspora Studies, Indigenous and Women of Color Feminisms, Contemporary Pacific Art, Pacific Cultural Production, Digital Humanities, Global Indigeneities

Stilianos Louca

Assistant Professor
Biology
Office: 282 Onyx Bridge

Andrew Lovering

Professor
Human Physiology
Phone: 541-346-0831
Office: 218A Pacific Hall
Research Interests: Cardiopulmonary and respiratory physiology

Daniel Lowd

Professor
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-4154
Office: 262 Deschutes Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 2-3pm, Friday 10-11am
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Leah Lowthorp

Assistant Professor
Co-DGS, Folklore and Public Culture
Anthropology, Folklore Program
Phone: 541-346-5101
Office: 321 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024, Wednesday 12-3pm
Research Interests: Folklore, Performance, Critical Heritage Studies, Online Narratives of Human Biotechnology, South Asia

Sergio Loza

Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Office: 430 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday 4-5pm via Zoom only (email me for link)
Research Interests: Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness

Peng Lu

Professor
Mathematics
Phone: 541-346-4727
Office: 112B McArthur Court
Office Hours: MWF 2-3pm

Ximing Lu

Assistant Professor
Classics
Phone: 541-346-4922
Office: 333 Susan Campbell Hall
Research Interests: Latin literature, Roman education, slavery, Global classics

Melissa Lucash

Research Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies, Geography
Phone: 541-346-4598
Office: 245 Columbia Hall
Office Hours: Mon at 10am, Thur at 9am Columbia 245
Research Interests: forest ecology,climate change, wildfire, spatial modeling,landscape ecology

David Luebke

Professor
Katherine G. Brady & Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Roger Chickering & Alison Baker Professor of Central European Histories
Food Studies, History
Phone: 541-346-2394
Office: 357 McKenzie Hall

Caroline Lundquist

Pro Tem Instructor of Philosophy & Research Associate/Associate Director CGOEP
Philosophy
Office: 310 Chapman Hall
Office Hours: Fridays: 2:30-3:30 p.m. AND by appointment during Spring 2021

Peji Lunyili

Pro Tem Instructor
Linguistics
Office: Straub 285

Kathryn Lynch

Co-Director, Environmental Leadership Program
Environmental Studies
Phone: 541-346-5070
Office: 140 Columbia Hall
Research Interests: environmental anthropology, environmental education, ethnobotany

Kathy Lynn

Research Assistant
Native American Studies, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5777
Office: 243 Columbia Hall